BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.177.157//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240503T153709EDT-8757fC8VOc@132.216.177.157 DTSTAMP:20240503T193709Z DESCRIPTION:From January 23-25\, McGill will be hosting its first ever Glob al Health Film Festival!\n\nRSVP now to let us know you are coming!\n\nFor current updates on the Global Health Film Festival please consult our Fac ebook page.\n\nIn coordination with the Pulitzer Centre for Crisis Reporti ng\, the Festival will screen a variety of films pertaining to Global Heal th. In addition\, this event will be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about health related groups on campus through tabling and special present ations.\n\nBeginning at 5:30 PM in the 6th floor atrium of the McIntyre Me dical Building\, we will have tabling for global health related student gr oups and programs\, the films will begin at 6:00 PM in the Charles Palmer Theatre. Listed below are the films\, presentations & special guests for e ach evening. Click on the film titles for the official trailers and more i nformation!\n\nSchedule & Film Line-up: \n\nDate\n Films\n Presentations & S pecial Guests\n January 23\n \n 6:05 PM: The Role of Visual Journalism in Glo bal Health (7 minutes)\n\n 6:20 PM: The Life Equation (97 minutes) \n\n Bonu s Feature\, 8:35 PM: Erison and the Ebola Soccer Survivors (12 minutes)\n \n \n 5:30- 6:00 PM: Global health student groups fair\, movie snacks\, and exhibits in McIntyre 6th floor atrium\n\n 6:00- 6:20 PM: Presentation and I ntroduction given by the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting and Mr. Rob T inworth\, director of The Life Equation\n\n 7:50- 8:35 PM: Q&A with Ann Pet ers\, representative from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Mr. Rob Tinworth\, director of The Life Equation\n \n January 24\n \n 6:00 PM: Fir e in the Blood (87 minutes)\n\n Bonus Feature\, 8:30 PM: Baseball in the Ti me of Cholera (27 minutes) \n \n \n 5:30- 6:00 PM: Global health student grou ps fair\, movie snacks and exhibits in McIntyre 6th floor atrium\n\n 7:30- 7:45 PM: Presentation from Vidya Krishnan on reporting done after the rele ase of Fire in the Blood\n\n 7:45- 8:30 PM: Expert panel on access to medic ines with Prof. Rachel Kiddell-Monroe\, Ms. Chloe Hogg\, Dr. Diane Singhro y and Ms. Vidya Krishnan moderated by Dr. Madhukar Pai\n \n  January 25\n \n 6 :10 PM: Bending the Arc (102 minutes)\n\n Bonus Feature\, 8:35- 9:15 PM: Fi rst\, Do No Harm (45 minutes)\n \n \n 5:30- 6:00 PM: Global health student gr oups fair\, movies snacks and exhibits in McIntyre 6th floor atrium\n\n 6:0 0- 6:10 PM: Introduction given by Mr. Mark Brender\, Director of Partners in Health Canada\n\n 7:50- 8:35 PM: Panel on careers in global health with  Mr. Mark Brender\, Dr. Theresa Gyorkos\, Ms. Madlen Nash\, Dr. Jose Ignaci o Nazif-Muñoz\, Dr. Julia von Oettingen and Dr. Madhukar Pai\, moderated b y Katherine Duncan\n \n *the above times are approximate and subject to chan ge\n\nMeet our panelists! \n\nBelow are the experts who will participate i n the panels scheduled above!\n\n\n Rob Tinworth\n Chloe Hogg\n Rachel Kiddel l-Monroe\n Vidya Krishnan\n Diane Singhroy\n Mark Brender\n Theresa Gyorkos\n M adlen Nash\n Jose Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz\n Julia von Oettingen\n \n Rob Tinworth \n\n January 23: introducing The Life Equation and participating in the Q&A on the filming and production following the movie\n\n Rob Tinworth is a fi lmmaker with broad experience in independent film and broadcast television \, including documentaries for Nova and Frontline. In 2012 he travelled th rough Sichuan documenting life in China’s leprosy villages. That film insp ired 'The Life Equation'\, and he has been following this story for almost three years. Rob is a five-time Emmy nominee\, winning in 2014 for 'Nova: Manhunt Boston Bombers.' Other awards include two Best Documentary honors at the Asian Television Awards\, and two Cine Golden Eagles. His last fea ture documentary followed punk band Green Day’s foray into the world of mu sical theater. The award-winning 'Broadway Idiot' premiered at SXSW 2013. \n \n\n \n Chloe Hogg\n\n January 24: Participating in the expert panel on acc ess to medicines following the screening of Fire in the Blood\n\n Chloe is a recent graduate of McGill University with a BA in Economics and Internat ional Development. She has been involved with Universities Allied for Esse ntial Medicines (UAEM)\, a global access to medicines organisation\, since 2016 when she co-founded the University of Melbourne chapter. She has sin ce become a member of the North American Coordinating Committee and is inv olved in writing submissions\, attending policy meetings\, drafting legisl ation\, and planning access to medicines events in Canada. She is passiona te about health economics and policy and hopes to work on public-private p artnerships to improve access to medicines for all.\n \n\n \n Rachel Kiddell- Monroe\n\n January 24: Participating in the expert panel on access to medic ines following the screening of Fire in the Blood\n\n Rachel Kiddell-Monroe \, a lawyer and an activist\, specializes in humanitarian assistance\, glo bal health\, governance and bioethics. She is currently a member of the MS F International Board of Directors.  Rachel was President of the Board of Directors of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines from 2007 to 2013 and now serves as UAEM’s Senior Policy Advisor.  She was recently appoint ed to the McGill University Health Centres Clinical Ethics Committee (adul t).  After working on indigenous rights and East Timor independence with g rassroots organisations in Indonesia from 1989 to 1992\, Rachel joined Méd ecins sans Frontières. With MSF she headed emergency humanitarian missions in Djibouti\, Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and Rwanda before \, during and after the genocide. After becoming programme director of MSF Canada\, she was appointed Regional Humanitarian Affairs Advisor for Lati n America based in CostaRica from 1999-2003. Returning to Canada in 2003\, she led the MSF Access Campaign in Canada until 2007.\n\n Rachel has also lectured on international development at McGill University and consulted f or the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (www.dndi.org)\, the Canadi an HIV/AIDS Legal Network on the Canadian Access to Medicines Regime (www. aidslaw.ca) and MSF (www.msf.org).  Rachel has specialised her academic an d professional career on global health and institutional governance. She c ompleted her LL.M in Bioethics at McGill in 2013 and her thesis focused on a multicentric approach to global governance for health. Rachel has autho red several peer-reviewed publications in this field and most recently a w orking paper on her proposal for multicentric global governance for health was published and presented at the international ISGlobal (www.isglobal.o rg) governance seminar in November 2013.\n \n\n \n Vidya Krishnan\n\n January 24: Participating in the expert panel on access to medicines following the screening of Fire in the Blood\n\n Vidya Krishnan is the Health & Science Editor for The Hindu. Vidya is a New Delhi based journalist\, with over 15 years of experience in covering public health in India. \n\n She completed her Masters degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies\, Univ ersity of London in 2011. After returning to India\, she consulted with th e Indian Health Ministry’s think tank Public Health Foundation of India wh ile writing for Mint.  In 2014\, she authored India’s National Health Prof ile for the India office of the World Health Organization\, SEARO.\n\n For PHFI & WHO\, her work was mainly to gather health intelligence\, document India’s epidemiological changes in the past decade\, map health financing and policy trends to help government decision making.\n\n Previously\, she covered public health for national dailies like The Indian Express and The Hindustan Times. She has also contributed to the British Medical Journal and Caravan Magazine.\n \n\n \n Diane Singhroy\n\n January 24: Participating i n the expert panel on access to medicines following the screening of Fire in the Blood\n\n Dr. Diane Singhroy is the Scientific and Technical Advisor at Knowledge Ecology International (KEI).\n\n Prior to joining KEI Diane w orked as a graduate student researcher in Dr. Mark Wainberg’s laboratory a t the McGill AIDS centre studying drug resistant HIV and innate immune int eractions. She also taught for a microbiology laboratory sciences and coll aborative drug discovery course as a teaching assistance for McGill univer sity.\n\n Diane has worked on access to medicines issues for University All ied for Essential Medicine (UAEM) as a chair of the Trade group and member of the North American coordinating committee (cc). There she advocated on issues ranging from the TPP\, the R&D Treaty and academic activism. In he r final year at UAEM\, she was a UAEM cc fellow and served on the global g overnance council.\n\n Before starting her PhD at McGill Diane worked for t he Office of Clinical trials at Health Canada as a screening officer.\n\n D iane holds a BSc in Health sciences (concentration in biochemistry and mol ecular biology) from Carleton University\, Ottawa\, and a PhD in Immunovir ology from McGill University\, Montreal.\n \n\n \n Mark Brender\n\n January 25 : participating in the panel on careers in global health\, following the f irst screening of Bending the Arc at McGill\n\n Mark Brender is National Di rector of Partners In Health Canada\, a Toronto-based global health NGO re lentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. Starting from a one-room clinic in Haiti 30 years ago\, Partners In Healt h now serves millions of patients each year across 10 countries\, working to deliver high quality health care\, address the root causes of illness\, train service providers\, advance research and advocate for global policy change. Mark opened the PIH Canada office in 2011 and is passionate about raising awareness and funds for this effort\, and empowering Canadians to join the movement for social justice and global health equity. He previou sly held leadership positions with national and international charitable o rganizations. Prior to his career in the non-profit sector\, he spent more than a decade as an award-winning hockey journalist\, writing about those who practice a different kind of justice.\n \n\n \n Theresa Gyorkos\n\n Janua ry 25: participating in the panel on careers in global health\, following the first screening of Bending the Arc at McGill\n\n Dr. Gyorkos has been a researcher in global health and parasite disease epidemiology for over 25 years and has conducted population-based primary epidemiological field re search both in Canada and abroad.  Her global health research activities i nclude: 1. deworming control programs in high risk population subgroups (e .g. preschool-age children\, school-age children and pregnant women)\; 2. interdisciplinary approaches to the prevention and control of endemic infe ctious and parasitic diseases\; and  3.  the interrelationship between inf ection and (mal)nutrition in child populations and pregnant women. She has worked with WHO\, PAHO and national governments in developing and promoti ng health policy focusing on reducing the burden of disease attributed to worm infections.  She has published over 140 scientific peer-reviewed pape rs.  She is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Epidemiology\, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University\, a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Parasitic Diseases\, a member of the STH Advisory Committee and the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Re search and Training in Parasite Epidemiology and Control. In June 2017 she organized an  international Advisory Group meeting at the Rockefeller Cen ter in Bellagio\, Italy on deworming in girls and women of reproductive ag e.\n \n\n \n Madlen Nash\n\n January 25: participating in the panel on careers in global health\, following the first screening of Bending the Arc at Mc Gill\n\n Madlen Nash completed her Honours BSc in Microbiology and Immunolo gy at McGill University and is now pursuing a Master’s in Epidemiology. Wo rking at the McGill International TB Centre\, Madlen has conducted field r esearch in India and authored several publications on TB diagnostics and H IV viral load monitoring. She is also involved with Universities Allied fo r Essential Medicines working to improve the accessibility and affordabili ty of medicines and diagnostics.\n \n\n \n José Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz\n\n Januar y 25: participating in the panel on careers in global health\, following t he first screening of Bending the Arc at McGill\n\n José Ignacio Nazif-Muño z is a Steinberg Global Health Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Hea lth and Social Policy at McGill University. He received his PhD in Sociolo gy and a Masters of Arts from McGill University. His doctoral thesis Inequ ity on the roads: the interplay of global forces and road safety policy di ffusion and traffic fatalities and injuries was awarded the 2016 Arts Insi ght Dissertation Award for the best dissertation of 2015 in the Social Sci ences at McGill. His research has been published in journals such as Inter national Journal of Comparative Sociology\, Injury Prevention and Traffic Injury Prevention\, cited in United Nations’ resolutions (i.e. General Ass embly A/68/368)\, public policy reports and peer-reviewed journals. He rec eived the John D. States Award for the top student paper at the 58th Assoc iation for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine Conference in Munich Ger many in 2014. He has worked as consultant for the Pan-American Health Orga nization\, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean\, a nd the Inter-American Development Bank. His research expertise includes gl obal health\, globalization\, road safety\, road users’ vulnerable populat ions\, policy diffusion\, and policy evaluation.\n \n\n \n Julia von Oettinge n\n\n January 25: participating in the panel on careers in global health\, following the first screening of Bending the Arc at McGill\n\n Julia von Oe ttingen is a pediatric endocrinologist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital \, Assistant Professor at McGill University\, and Junior Scientist at the McGill University Health Center Research Institute. Originally from German y\, she completed her MD-PhD at Leipzig University\, her pediatric residen cy at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston\, and her endocrine fel lowship training at the Boston Children’s Hospital. She obtained her maste r’s in clinical and translational investigation from Harvard University. H er research focuses on phenotypes and social determinants of pediatric dia betes in non-Caucasian populations\, and on pediatric endocrine care deliv ery in global health settings. She is a site adviser to the International Diabetes Federation’s Life for a Child program in Liberia and Haiti\, tech nical adviser to Partners in Health in Haiti\, executive committee member of Global Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes\, and a member of the Pedia tric Endocrine Society International Relations Council where she leads the Haiti subcommittee. \n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nWe recognize that everybody ha s different accessibility needs\, so if you require assistance getting to and from the Global Health Film Festival\, please feel free to ghp.med [at ] mcgill.ca (subject: Global%20Health%20Film%20Festival%20Special%20Requir ements) (email our office).\n\nIf you are not yet registered for STM Para -Transit\, you can do so here\, but please keep in mind that this can take several weeks to process. If you are already registered\, you can pre-ord er your transit for the Global Health Film Festival here. If you have any questions or concerns\, don’t hesitate to ask us!\n\nBelow is the accessib ility information for McIntyre Medical Building\, for the campus accessibi lity guide please click here.\n\nWe would like to acknowledge that McGill University is located on land which has long served as a site of meeting a nd exchange amongst Indigenous peoples\, including the Haudenosaunee and A nishinaabeg nations. McGill honours\, recognizes and respects these nation s as the traditional stewards of the lands and waters on which we will mee t.\n\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180125 LOCATION:Charles Palmer Amphitheatre\, McIntyre Medical Building\, CA\, QC\ , Montreal\, H3G 1Y6\, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler SUMMARY:McGill Global Health Film Festival URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/mcgill-global-health-film -festival-282917 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR